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Produced by: Glenn Hughes
Glenn is one of my favourite singers in the whole world and indeed one of the finest singers in the world.
Putting on hold his plans to record the ultimate soul/funk project Glenn announced his intention to record another rock album. Hurrah. And here it is - but you know, this isn't entirely a rock album.
Instead this album mixes everything Glenn has been working on for the last two years, both solo and band projects and blends them into a very cohesive set of songs that could finally lead him to be more recognized in the commercial pop world.
The album is softer than I imagined and quite a mature slice of pop rock. A cocktail of Glenn's talents in one release. Listening to this album you can hear parts of his vocal style on Addiction, plenty of the funk and soul of Feel, some of the softer commercial elements of From Now On and a generous serve of blues rock in the style of his album Blues. There is also a distinct retro feel on several tracks, taking Glenn in a new direction altogether. Unlike some albums that blend style but loose rhythm, this album flows freely and superbly from style to style, track to track.
The vocals are nothing short of brilliant. Glenn sounds better with every release and his vocals run the gauntlet of the hard rock scream to some very controlled Prince style pop ballads. There is a couple of new tricks even - check out the vocal maneuvering on Freedom - and the pure pop of Ever After.
The Way It Is is the lead single and lead track. Interesting track to open an album - it is a fairly laid back modern pop song with a little style of Feel in it and a little Hughes/Thrall.
The vocals are ultra smooth and right on track.
You Kill Me has a little funk in the intro and rocks into the a la Black Dog verse with the first sign of any hard rock on the album. As it turns out this track was taken from the Stevie Salas and Matt Sorum band project. The guys play on it and it was written by Hughes and Salas. The chorus is not overly large, but it has impact with Hughes voice coming through like a diamond.
Ever After is soul, rock and funk rolled into a pop song. Very cleaver vocals and a smooth nondescript chorus. Check out Glenn's throaty rasp mid song.
Rain On Me starts as a totally Feel influenced funk rock track, then slides into another ultra smooth chorus, with acoustic guitars and backing vocals adding to the smoothness.
The Curse is a very soft pop song with a very Prince pop ballad vocal. Whispering vocals over acoustic guitars and piano. The chorus sees a more pronounced vocal. Very commercial and very smooth.
Interesting choice of Glenn to cover the Hendrix tune Freedom. His version is pure funk rock and contains some great blues guitar and some more great vocals. Glenn sings deeper and harder on this track.
Truth is a harder edge track. The album needed one about now and sure enough, it is a guitar driven track with a touch of funk, much like Big Time or Coffee And Vanilla off Feel.
Stoned In The Temple starts with a very commercial synth-dance beat. Funky again and pure pop. The vocal is harder like a rock track and the lyrics are great. The chorus rises a couple of levels and Glenn's vocals are truely sensational. It's not one of my favourites, but one that is so 90's commercial, it seems impossible it won't get radio play.
A very Edde Van Halen guitar riff kicks off Too Far Gone. The song is ballady in it's feel and Glenn's vocals are very subdued through the verse - then the chorus - the song rises several notches and the vocals are harder and more pure rock. Then it's back to the pop verse. Very cool. A good track for rock radio.
Second Son is pure hard funk. Another track written by and from the Salas/Sorum sessions, this track will be a favourite amongst the older Hughes fans and those that like to hear him rock.
Take You Down is pure pop at heart - a moody tune that sees Hughes voice go from the whispering Prince to the hard edged Deep Purple vocalist.
Don't Look Away again sounds like a Feel track. Again Glenn's vocals run the gauntlett. His is a magnificent singer. A slow paced pop ballad that builds in intensity over it's five and a half minutes.
Freedom (Re-Mix) is for a limited audience as far as this CD goes, but if released as a single to the pop or dance market could see new fans introduced to Glenn Hughes.
I will continue to skip this track, but as far as dance re-mixes go - this works pretty well.
More than any other album since Hughes/Thrall, the heart and soul of Glenn Hughes is in this album.
For the most part it is a great album that Hughes fans should embrace with ease. Personally I will rank some of his other albums above this as far as my favourite releases, and it will be up to other individual tastes to decide the level of enjoyment received from this album. Some are going to yearn for that harder edge, but we have From Now On and Addiction for that.
As far as Glenn's individual performance and the quality of the vocal and songwriting on The Way It Is, you will be hard pressed to find a better Glenn Hughes album ever.
I hope this proves to be his breakthrough album.
|ESSENTIAL FOR: Every Glenn Hughes fan on the planet and plenty of new ones!
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This, is simply Glenn's best album since "returning" from his "Dark Side". "From Now On" is Killer, but The Way It Is, is the one that keeps returning to the CD player and the one that gets "pushed" to my friends.
Songwriting, playing, singing, this has it all, never gets tiring and appeals to ALL Glenn's stylings. This should have won a Grammy.
Rating: 92
AWSOME !!! go get it. GH is incredable.
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glenn, este disco puedes empaquetarlo con el return of cristal karma y tirarlos los dos por que son uno parte del otro, mas de lo mismo
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I'ts very dificult to explain how I feel about Glenn, I love his voice and I know he Will get there soon.
Rating: 87
Once again, Glenn shows that he can do just about anything. There is no stopping this man, and thank god! He has been a complete inspiration to many, and hopefully he will achieve greater success with each release. The man can sing anything, and he has the ability to draw people in with his unique style. My favorite is still "From Now On...", but I like pretty much all of his albums. This one is no exception. Great tunes, could have rocked just a tad more, but "You Kill Me" will tide me over for a while. A fine piece of work.
Rating: 95
The Glenn Hughes funk rock triology : Come Taste The Band, Hughes & Thrall and The Way It Is.
Beautiful work from Glenn. Superb vocals, great songwriting. A killer album. My only "regret" is the lack of personality of Joakim Marsh's playing.
Once again, Glenn manages to mix all his influences and make them sound truly unique. Vi
Rating: 99
A great work. Glenn´s voice sounds better than ever.
Why isn´t this man as popular as Michael Jackson ?
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UTEP seems to be a popular pick, I saw where Tony Barnhart picked them as well. I'm thinking the Rebs/Bears get the win at home as the Miners come out flat after their loss to OU. Sorry to hear about Chris Faulk, maybe the best offensive lineman in the conference. Tough, tough break.
Here's your regularly-scheduled rundown of all the Week Two SEC contests. You'll find everything from kickoff times to TV info to betting lines to our keys to each of the games.
Enjoy the games, be safe, and best of luck to your favorite school this weekend.
Auburn at Mississippi State
12:00pm ET on ESPN
Opening Line: MSU -2
Current Line: MSU -3
Storylines: State comes in 1-0 and looking to get a leg up on Auburn for once. Dan Mullen has never gotten the better of the Tigers and that's left his Bulldogs to dig out of a hole in each of three previous seasons. As for Auburn, Gene Chizik can't afford to start 0-2. There's already a whisper in the wind that he might not be all he's cracked up to be. If AU loses tomorrow, expect the Auburn messageboards to heat up.
Keys for Auburn: First, Kiehl Frazier and the Auburn passing game have to be more effective. If it's not, MSU will simply stack the box against the run. Second, Brian VanGorder's new defense needs to be stout against the run and tackle much, much better than it did last weekend.
Keys for Mississippi State: With a game as full-time starter now under his belt, it's time for Tyler Russell to establish himself as a true leader. He has the weapons at wideout to move the ball against Auburn. If State can avoid turnovers, they should finally record a much-needed breakthrough win for their head coach. But if the Dogs find themselves in another tight game with Auburn late, will doubts begin to creep into their minds?
Pick: Mississippi State 20, Auburn 17
East Carolina at South Carolina
12:21pm ET on SEC Network
Opening Line: USC -23.5
Current Line: USC -21.5
Storylines: Connor Shaw's bruised shoulder. Carolina's passing offense was almost non-existent last week against Vanderbilt. If Shaw is ready to go — and he'll be a gametime decision — then he and his receivers need to find some sort of rhythm. If he's not ready to go, expect a massive dose of Marcus Lattimore.
Keys for South Carolina: As noted above — work on the passing game. If Shaw's not available, that's a moot point. Either way, USC's ground game and defense should be enough to coast past ECU.
Pick: South Carolina 34, East Carolina 17
Florida at Texas A&M
3:30pm ET on ESPN
Opening Line: A&M -2.5
Current Line: A&M -1
Storylines: How 'bout that billboard in Gainesville for one? Remember how all the Aggies claimed an investigation would prove that a Texas or Baylor person was behind it? Well, besides what turned out to be a phony contract floating around on messageboards, there's been nothing more said about who indeed paid for that bit of trash talk. But more importantly, this is A&M's welcome to the SEC party. Will Muschamp brings what looked to be a sloppy Gator squad back to the Lone Star State where he's sure to find a wild and raucous Kyle Field crowd. If that weren't enough, this will also mark the beginning of the Kevin Sumlin era in College Station. Toss in the first start for redshirt freshman Aggie quarterback Johnny Manziel and you've got more storylines than a Steven Soderbergh flick.
Keys for Florida: Brent Pease must help new starting quarterback Jeff Driskel build confidence via the coach's play-calling. The Gators have to prove that last week's improved running game had more to do with themselves than with their competition (Bowling Green). Defensively, you can bet Muschamp has studied Sumlin's pass-happy system from Houston… but will that be the same offense the coach trots out tomorrow?
Keys for Texas A&M: Hard to say since we've never seen a Sumlin-led Aggie squad play. We'll go with this one though — get the ground game going with a deep stable of backs to help take some of the pressure off of Manziel. First starts can be tough on QBs. They can be especially tough when the D-linemen coming after him have SEC speed and size.
Pick: Florida 20, Texas A&M 16
Western Kentucky at Alabama
3:30pm ET on SEC Network
Opening Line: UA -37
Current Line: UA -38.5
Storylines: RESPECT! Nick Saban wants you to know that WKU is a big, bad, hard-working bruiser of a football team. They're nothing to laugh at. Don't scoff. Scoffing isn't part of the "process."
Keys for: In all seriousness, keep people healthy. The #1 team in the country shouldn't have too much trouble with a Sun Belt team so the trick will be to get the starters out as soon as possible and get reps for the backups.
Pick: Alabama 41, Western Kentucky 10
Georgia State at Tennessee
4:00pm ET on Pay-per-view
Opening Line: No Line Posted
Current Line: No Line Posted
Storylines: Will anyone attend? Vol fans are excited about a season-opening win over NC State, but spending big bucks to watch Georgia State? If the national trend holds, expect a whole bunch of empty seats at Neyland Stadium.
Keys for Tennessee: Same as Alabama. Same as so many SEC teams playing sub-par competition — just stay healthy. Working on the interior run game against living, breathing opponents wouldn't hurt either.
Pick: Tennessee 52, Georgia State 10
UTEP at Ole Miss
7:00pm ET on FSN
Opening Line: UM -4
Current Line: UM -8
Storylines: Hugh Freeze goes for win #2 against a team that hung with Oklahoma for three quarters last weekend.
Keys for Ole Miss: Hope that Bo Wallace can continue to be a one-man wrecking crew on offense as the Rebels step up a level in competition. Also, UM's defense absolutely must improve against the pass. Trouble is… their secondary might not be capable of improvement right now due to roster issues.
Pick: UTEP 28, Ole Miss 27
Washington at LSU
7:00pm ET on ESPN
Opening Line: LSU -22
Current Line: LSU -24
Storylines: SEC versus Pac-12. We don't get many of those matchups (which is a shame). For LSU, a key will be finding the right replacement for injured left tackle Chris Faulk. Les Miles has listed three options, this is a good week to figure out which option works best.
Keys for LSU: As noted above, figure out the offensive line situation. Do that and the Tiger run game should be enough to put away Washington pretty early. Also, QB Zach Mettenberger needs to improve on reading defenses and getting rid of the football lest he get his clock cleaned again as happened last Saturday.
Pick: LSU 37, Washington 17
Louisiana-Monroe at Arkansas at Little Rock
7:00pm ET on ESPNU
Opening Line: UA -28
Current Line: UA -30.5
Storylines: Yawn. Another ho-hum game. How many folks in Little Rock will turn out for this one?
Keys for Arkansas: Continue to round tailback Knile Davis into shape, protect Tyler Wilson and start to show some big improvements on defense. Last week's game — another yawner — against Jacksonville State wasn't what Razorback fans had had in mind regarding Paul Haynes' new defense.
Pick: Arkansas 52, Louisiana-Monroe 14
Kent State at Kentucky
7:30pm ET on CSS
Opening Line: Pick 'Em
Current Line: UK -7
Storylines: How many empty seats? How hot will Joker Phillips' seat be after the game?
Keys for Kentucky: I'm sensing a theme here, but UK's defense must make strides from last week's beatdown at Louisville. If Kent State is driving for 75+ yard drives, it could be an even longer season in the Bluegrass State than anyone expected.
Pick: Kentucky 34, Kent State 20
Georgia at Missouri
7:45pm ET on ESPN2
Opening Line: UGA -3.5
Current Line: UGA -2.5
Storylines: Mizzou DT Sheldon Richardson got things rolling by claiming that Georgia plays an "old man" style of football. Georgia's expected to be shorthanded due to suspension and the Dawgs had trouble last week with Buffalo's mobile quarterback. Faurot Field's fans and Gary Pinkel's team will both be looking to make a statement. Thanks to Richardson's pep talk, many UGA players will likely want to do the same. Like the Florida-A&M matchup, isn't it fun to know we're going to get a taste of something new tomorrow?
Keys for Georgia: Rush James Franklin. Hit James Franklin. But don't let James Franklin break containment or find seams left open by rushing Bulldogs. While Georgia's run game looked good last week, this is one for QB Aaron Murray. Shootouts usually come down to quarterbacks. Is Murray ready to lead UGA to a big win on the road?
Keys for Missouri: Stay under control emotionally. If Columbia is ever going to go batty for an SEC football game it figures tomorrow will be the day. If Georgia gets up early, Mizzou — and the Tiger fanbase — can't allow all the air to escape from the balloon as has happened to oh so many teams playing the disrespect card over the years. A lot has been said about Missouri's undersized — by SEC standards — defensive line. Tomorrow, that D-line must prove itself, slow Georgia's ground attack and force Murray to try and win the game one-dimensionally.
Pick: Missouri 31, Georgia 30
Vanderbilt at Northwestern
8:00pm ET on Big Ten Network
Opening Line: VU -1.5
Current Line: VU -3.5
Storylines: The brain bowl. Northwestern is what Vanderbilt longs to be — an fine academic institution with a football program that can consistently compete in its home league. The Dores were sky high for last week's loss at home against South Carolina. James Franklin can't afford to start the season 0-2 or else a lot people — possibly fans and players included — might start muttering, "same old Vanderbilt."
Keys for Vanderbilt: Close the dang deal. Franklin himself said it's time for VU to get over the hump in a hard-fought, close ballgame. This is the chance on the road. Vandy went to Wake Forest and whipped a similar foe at the end of last season. The Commodores need Jordan Rodgers to be patient and accurate in order to escape Illinois with a victory.
Pick: Vanderbilt 24, Northwestern 21


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Netflix's newest season of Arrested Development premieres next month...or so we're told.
A specific release date has yet to be announced for the fourteen new episodes, but cast members and media sources have provided some insight into the seemingly scant official news about the cult television show.
So, here they are:
1. This Isn't Officially "Season 4"
In an interview with GQ mazaine, Jason Bateman was quoted as saying:
"It is not season four," Bateman says emphatically. "It got misbranded or mislabeled way, way, way back when and was never corrected for one reason or another. There are different agendas at work there, but it is not season four."
Unfortunately, Bateman did not elaborate as to what he means by that. Just more speculation.
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2. David Cross Doesn't Know if There Will Be a Movie
In an interview with Michael Cera, David Cross was quoted as saying:
"I don't know if there's going to be a movie," Cross said. "The next season of the show will air, sorry, will stream in May. They were shooting for earlier but that got extended because of editing. So let's just say early to middle of May. There will be 14 to 15 episodes. There was going to be 10, but then everything got stretched out for your enjoyment. Because why not? At least this time we don't have to worry about selling jeans on Fox TV."
3. There Will Be Lots of Guest Stars
Latino Posts confirms the impressive list of guest stars we can expect to see on this new season, including: Ben Stiller, Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Isla Fisher, Conan O'Brien and John Slattery, not to mention a brief cameo from the show's creators Mitch Hurwitz and Brian Grazer.
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4. Jason Bateman Talks About a Possible Movie
Further along in his interview with GQ, Bateman touches on the seeming need for a movie to follow-up this supposed last season.
The last line of the last episode of Arrested Development was Ron Howard saying to Maeby—she's pitching him a show about her family at Imagine—and he says to her, "No, I don't see it as a series. Maybe a movie!" And then the screen goes black. That's it. So Mitch [Hurwitz, the show's creator] was always planning on writing a movie. Every time he went to start a movie script, there was so much work to be done just to fill the audience in on where the family had been since the end of the show, and to also initiate the uninitiated about who these characters are. So he thought: The only way to tell a story of this size is to do the first act in episodes. So it's really a hybrid distribution of one big story. The episodes are simply act 1, and the movie will have act 2 and act 3 in it. So one does not work without the other.
5. This Will Probably Be the Last "Season"
It has been reported via the Huffington Post that this will most likely be the end of the series.
On a conference call with investors on Monday, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said "Arrested Development's" revival on the streaming service happened under "unrepeatable circumstances," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
"'Arrested' is a unique property. We don't anticipate being able to do Season 5, 6 and 7," Hastings said on the call (via THR). "It is really a fantastic one off, which is coming together incredibly. I think it will be amazing for us, but think of it as a non-repeatable amazing."


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A disgrace and a waste of taxpayers money – I have been trying to get mine 10 years and now my son is about to turn 18. His dad returned to Ireland thinking I would not follow him here. His parents also would not give me his address. I hired a private investigator. You should see if Germany is a reciprocal country of the US. Finally I'm going to court in Europe to have my child support case from the states upheld. By law they have to enforce it in Germany for you. You should stick to your guns on them. Once it gets into the German system the hard work is over
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trying to to get child support for my daughter – I have went to the child support office many times trying to get child support for my daughter who is now 6 years old. Me and her father has already had a blood test done and it is his child but everytime I go to childsupport they tell me his family says he's no longer in the United States, and the he is in Frankfurt. Germany playing Basketball, his family will not give me his address over there because I will take it to child support office. His mom and dad comes and get my daughter almost every summer and tells her that her dad sent her some clothes or money or whatever, is there anyway they could be responsible for givivng me the information I need to the child support that my daughter is entitled to.
I have dealt with them off and on since 2002. They have not ever gotten me anything for my two children. – The answering/ hold machine they use is unprofessional and it cuts you off. I cannot get anyone to return my calls. Don't waste your time!
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When I was in school for audio only the guys that sucked worked for free. Exposure is not currency and, in my opinion, a poor investment most of the time.
Seems kinda like a gimboid subject, and I don't mean to come across as ultra fired up or anything, but ever since I seen this perticular video from Stephen Silver (the character designer for kim possible and such things), I've been thinking alot about how crappy it really is being asked to work for free, as an artist...
I mean, all I've really done for commisions are some snarky websites and band posters and stuff, but could you imagine asking a musician to do that for you? "Hey dude I don't know, you like playing the guitar, right? Well play me this song to go in my video! You'll get some nice *exposure*!"
The video I was talking about;
Have any of you guys ever been talked to like this before? Has anyone had any positive stories of gaining some glorious exposure? 'Cause I'm really starting to think this is kind of a nasty way to treat a buisness that is stereotypically starving and generally quite humble in character...
When I was in school for audio only the guys that sucked worked for free. Exposure is not currency and, in my opinion, a poor investment most of the time.
I've done 'royalty' work and a little free work just cause I wanted to.
I seek out good royalty work, which is the promise of pay if the project ever sees the light of day.
Most of the time they're pretty legit teams, and they can't use your work for any sort of personal gain without your consent which is fine to me.
So when I put in work with these teams, it's not because they ask me, but because I choose to join, and feel I'm getting at least a bit of experience in the field I'm looking forward to going into, and to say it's gone to waste in the past few years would be a lie.
In short, this is how I see things.
Working for free where someone gets to keep your work and has rights to it just for a little exposure is usually bs.
Working for the 'promise' (for lack of better word) of pay, keeping the rights to your work, and gaining useful experience out of it all is good.
Working with a group of other people who also are doing the work for free just because they love what they do can also turn out well sometimes.
Never work for free. You are just de-valuating your self and your product.
I guess it's pretty unanimous, then. But still a pretty good message to spread to the unexperienced.
Reg also feels like a complete dicknerd for ever feeling pressurized in the first place, but hey, that's how you learn. >_>
I almost never work for free. I have a real job that will pay me real money that gives me graphic design and illustration options if I want them. I don't need some punk "friend" trying to guilt-trip me into something that's nothing short of exploitation.
I'll pay you for that Naomi drawing, Seefy.
I have little experience in paid jobs, but I have enough to share tips. First, if you're doing a big job for decently high pay, always background-check your employer. If you can't find any background information and the dude's username is xXmoneylessXx or something of the like and you can't even find his name or anything, proceed with caution. If you're working for an organization, like a college, you're probably safe (look for the .edu).
Second, give yourself more time than you think you'll need, because you will frequently run into problems, e.g. crashes, rage-quitting and having to restart, the entire piece being more complex than you think, etc.
Third, if you're having trouble getting started, grab your references and turn off your Internet. Remember when I was posting art frequently and improving all the time? That was back when I could only get online from school.
I don't know what's going on in your life but for me it all boils down to this: Don't work for free unless you have the time to do it.* If you don't have the time to do it, then make sure you get paid. If you're getting paid, lay out the base price and the revision price for each modification thereafter.
* Yeah, I agree with the guilt-trip thing. Don't get bullied into feeling bad because in the end, if you can't keep your end of the bargain, the other party will tear you down regardless and make you feel even worse. It's a no-win situation so don't play ball unless you have time and as Gunz said, you're personally interested in doing it. :|
That's the truth if I ever heard it. Also...this is a given...don't sign contracts where you only get paid after you produce something. If a client wants you to do work for them, then they should be able to give you something for your time. Made that mistake...& I eventually after falling into the guilt trip/ revision trap, I had to flat out demand compensation. If your client keeps asking for revisions & there's no base price set for doing them then they'll keep asking for revisions. That's worth YOUR time & money.
Alternatively, work on free projects to expand your skills. BUt only do them with folks who contribute to the project. At least, that's what I think.
Step-by-step payment plans are nice, because if something falls through, at least you were paid proportionally to the work accomplished so far.
Matt: No, no, don't worry about that. I come back to it every now and again and start over. I think it's now a personal fixation of mine because I just want to make it really nice for you, and you're not demanding or anything. I like doing things for friends, but when they get funky about it I don't want to do it anymore. you're definitely not funky. XD


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Results of the first polls, administered by the R.I. Track & Field Foundation:
Barrington's Adam Kelly won the boys' 12-pound hammer with a throw of 220 feet, 2 inches at the New York Relays, held over the weekend at Icahn Stadium. Classical's Alva Hicks won the girls' discus with a throw of 140-7 and took second in the hammer with a distance of 157-4.
New URI football coach Jim Fleming may not have a lot of Rhode Island high school players heading to Kingston in the fall, but he will have one of the best.
PROVIDENCE — Sometimes it takes the agony of defeat to make a student-athlete understand why high school sports can be so important.Just ask La Salle's Doug Harrison."I really felt those losses. You hate...
Tolman, a team that only won three Division I softball games all of last season, registered its second victory this season as the Tigers posted a 6-2 victory over defending state champion Lincoln.
Matthew Cauchon had a big night in net with 23 saves, while fellow senior Nicholas Zaroogian had three goals and one assist, as South Kingstown defeated East Greenwich, 8-5, ending the Avengers' 38-game winning streak in Division II. It marks the first time that the senior class has beaten East Greenwich, said Rebels coach Thomas Favorito, whose team improves to 2-0 on the season.
Here is the list, as of 3:45 p.m. Reschedule dates, if known, are in parentheses:
He started his high school coaching career when he was still a college student, and he won the state's major boys basketball championship in only his second year as a head coach.Somebody else in his position...
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The boys and girls basketball teams at Masters Regional Academy will both be joining the R.I. Interscholastic League next season. The Principals' Committee on Athletics approved the school's request earlier this week, confirmed RIIL assistant director Mike Lunney.
Mike Hayden has gotten his junior year off to a great start with the St. Anselm baseball team. Earning Northeast-10 Player of the Week honors earlier this month, the former All-State pitcher/first baseman, who helped lead Cranston West to the Division I crown in 2011, is hitting a team-leading .488 with a slugging percentage of .814. He also leads the Hawks with his 12 RBI, three home runs and five doubles through 12 games.
The R.I. Interscholastic League honored 14 R.I. Basketball Legends during last weekend's Credit Unions of R.I. Basketball Championships at the Ryan Center.
Legendary Providence College track and cross country coach Ray Treacy and several accomplished high school coaches are among the 10 individuals who will be inducted into the R.I. Track Coaches Hall of Fame at the organization's annual banquet, April 4 at 7 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Warwick.
Tolman, the runner-up to North Providence in the Medium Schools Division of the RIIL Team Competition Cheerleading Championships, took top honors among Division 3 teams at the eighth annual New England Interscholastic Spirit Championship, last weekend at Lawrence (Mass.) High School.
I saw 19 boys basketball playoff games over the past three weeks.
Coach, who with her assistants resigned on eve of state quarterfinals, cites parents "who misunderstand the meaning of team."
PROVIDENCE — Marc LaValley set the table and Jared Estrella delivered the groceries as the duo led East Providence to the Division III hockey title Sunday.
Hendricken rode a balanced scoring attack and solid defense to a 50-35 victory over Central in the boys basketball Open State Tournament championship game at The Ryan Center on Saturday night.
Taylor Buckley's game-high 22 points, including the game-winner with 10 seconds left, lifted North Kingstown to a 41-39 victory over Barrington in the Division I final of the Credit Unions of R.I. Girls Basketball Championships, Saturday at the Ryan Center.
Led by a 26-point effort from senior guard Josie Chaves, Rogers captured its program's first state title, defeating previously-unbeaten St. Raphael, 55-32, in the Division II final of the Credit Unions of R.I. Girls Basketball Championships, Saturday at the Ryan Center.
The Providence Journal will bring you live, play-by-play coverage of tonight's girls basketball Division I championship game, followed by the boys basketball open tournament championship. Your comments and questions are welcome. The games begin at 4:00 and 7:30, and our coverage begins at 3:45. Enter the chat room below to join us.
Three trips to the Ryan Center. Three state titles.
PROVIDENCE — All season, the Narragansett High School hockey team has spent time at practice working on what to do in last-minute situations with the game on the line. Friday night, that work paid off...
SOUTH KINGSTOWN — It's probably not the matchup most people expected, but Central High and Bishop Hendricken will play for the Boys Open State basketball title Saturday night.Central, a team that won only...
PROVIDENCE — The Cumberland High School hockey fans were not particularly nice as their team's game was beginning on Friday night, but they were correct.
Connor McKnight scored with 31 seconds left in regulation to lift Narragansett to a 1-0 victory over East Providence Friday night at Meehan Auditorium and tie the Division III title playoff series at one game apiece.
WEST WARWICK — It was every performer's worst nightmare. Ali Rodin stood alone in the middle of the mat waiting for her musical cue on Thursday night, and the music never started."I don't know what happened,"...
The top high school cheerleaders in the state will vie for top honors at the State Individual Cheerleading Championships, tonight at West Warwick High School. Although still sanctioned by the R.I. Interscholastic League, the event will be hosted this year by the R.I. Cheerleading Coaches Association. Cheerleaders were nominated for the competition by opposing coaches at meets throughout the season. Doors open at 6 p.m., with competition set to start at 6:30.
PROVIDENCE — They both managed to keep their unbeaten records intact throughout the regular season, and now they will be putting those perfect records to the ultimate test when they go head to head in...
Led by 22 points from Becca Gonzalez, St. Raphael staged a 51-46 come-from-behind semifinal win over Scituate in the Credit Unions of R.I. Girls Basketball Championships, Wednesday at R.I. College.
Led by 22 points from Josie Chaves, Rogers earned its first trip to the finals in 21 years, defeating Coventry, 56-48, in Division II semifinal action of the Credit Unions of R.I. Girls Basketball Championships, Wednesday at R.I. College.
PROVIDENCE — He may only be a sophomore, but Austin Alzate already has cemented his status as a Cranston sports hero.It was Alzate's two goals that gave the Cranston Co-op boys hockey team all the scoring...
PROVIDENCE — If the Division I finals are anything like the semifinals, girls basketball fans are in for an exciting matchup on Saturday afternoon.Both Division I semifinal games of the Credit Unions of...
Led by 13 points from Maura Kelty, 11 from Grecia Restituyo and another nine from Sarah Middleton, Barrington earned a return trip to the Ryan Center with a hard-fought 43-42 victory over Bay View in the Division I semifinals of the Credit Unions of R.I. Girls Basketball State Championships, Tuesday at R.I. College.
With the score tied at 49-all, North Kingstown's Molly Feid (11 points) sank two free throws with 26.1 seconds left, as the Skippers went on to defeat La Salle, 52-49, in Division I semifinal action of the Credit Unions of R.I. Girls Basketball State Championships, Tuesday at R.I. College.
PROVIDENCE — It will be north versus south in this year's Division III girls basketball final. Powered by 27 points from sophomore forward Samantha Kent, III-North champion North Smithfield earned its first...
Led by a combined 47 points from junior D'Asia Allen and sophomore Elfreda Hoff, Juanita Sanchez – the undefeated III-South champs, as well as two-time defending state champion – earned its third-straight trip to the Division III finals with a 67-56 victory over Central in the Credit Unions of R.I. Girls Basketball Championships, Monday at R.I. College.
On Monday night, the 2013-14 Mount St. Charles hockey team earned a spot in the program's archives as it completed one of the most amazing comebacks in the history of Mount hockey.
Powered by 27 points from sophomore forward Samantha Kent, North Smithfield earned its first trip to the finals in four years with a 44-39 victory over Middletown in the Division III semifinals of the Credit Unions of R.I. Girls Basketball Championships, Monday night at R.I. College.
Thom Spann's athletes weren't the only ones celebrating strong finishes at this weekend's New Balance National Indoor Track and Field Championships. The Blue Wave's coach, who is now in his 30th year of coaching boys and girls cross country and track at the school, brought home some hardware of his own, having been selected as the 2014 New Balance Nationals Mike Byrnes Coach of the Year.
The Chariho Sports Boosters Athletic Hall of Fame will honor its 17th class of inductees, April 12 at the Richmond Country Club. This year's class will feature these five individuals: Charles Bednarczyk (Class of 1971), a three-sport athlete who helped establish Chariho as one of the top soccer programs in the state; Kevin Borsay (Class of 2004), a two-time All-Stater in volleyball, as well as a standout in basketball and track and field; Keith Lambrechts (Class of 2005), a three-sport standout in football, basketball and track and field, who earned All-State honors in football and helped lead the basketball team to the Division II finals in 2005; Allegra Lovoy (Class of 2005), who finished her high school career as Chariho's all-time leading scorer with 1,634 points and the school's unofficial all-time leader in assists; and Audrey Poulton (Class of 2004), a three-sport athlete who especially excelled in softball, earning first-team All-State honors, and Chariho's selection for the Providence Journal Honor Roll Award.
PROVIDENCE — La Salle lived up to its billing as the top-seeded team in the R.I. Credit Unions State Open boys basketball tournament on Sunday, but it wasn't easy.
PROVIDENCE — What a difference a few days can make for a high school basketball team.
PROVIDENCE — Last year, the Central High basketball team won two Interscholastic League games. This season the Knights are going to the state Final Four.
Coventry booked its reservations early for a trip to the Final Four.
Sophomore Riley Tupper netted two third-period goals, including what would prove to be the game-winner and senior goalie Kyle Wilkinson recorded 31 saves, as Burrillville defeated Cranston Co-op, 5-4, in Game 2 of the Division I (non-state) finals of the Cox Sports Boys' Hockey State Championships, Sunday at Brown's Meehan Auditorium.
The Providence Journal will provide play-by-play coverage throughout the day of the Rhode Island Interscholastic League boys basketball quarterfinals from the Pizzitola Center at Brown University.
PROVIDENCE — Their coach described them as having "the heart of champions," and on Saturday afternoon, the members of the Portsmouth cheerleading squad were crowned just that — actually twice.The Patriots...
PROVIDENCE — The Cranston co-op boys hockey team lost only three of its 12 games against public school opponents during the regular season, but one of those setbacks was to Burrillville late in the season.So...
PROVIDENCE — It's Mount St. Charles and Hendricken, so why would you expect a best-of-three series for the state high school hockey title to go anything less than three games? That's the situation defending...
After finishing fourth in the Medium Schools Division last winter, Portsmouth was back on top this year, not only capturing the Large Schools Division title, but also claiming the overall state crown at the R.I. Interscholastic League Competition Cheerleading Championships, Saturday at the Providence Career & Technical Academy.
PROVIDENCE — Apparently you can only keep the Hendricken hockey team under wraps for so long.On Friday night, Mount St. Charles contained the regular-season champion Hawks for 41 minutes. Unfortunately...
PROVIDENCE — They spent the regular season battling it out for the Division I-Central title, and now Bay View and Barrington have earned a chance to play each other in the playoffs.Maura Kelty scored 20...
Competing at the New Balance Nationals Indoor at the Armory Track in New York City, Bishop Hendricken senior Colin Tierney set a new Rhode Island high school indoor track and field record in the 5000 meters on Friday afternoon clocking a time of 15:04.14, en route to an 11th-place finish. His performance surpassed the previous record of 15:13.3, set by East Greenwich High grad Nick Ross at the same event in 2009.
Dyamond Azakpo and Dakota Grenier led a balanced scoring effort with their combined 21 points, as Bay View defeated Smithfield, 56-40, in the Division I quarterfinals of the R.I. Interscholastic League Division I girls basketball tournament, Friday night at R.I. College.
Maura Kelty scored 20 points, 18 of them in the first half, in leading Barrington to a 42-36 win over South Kingstown in Division I quarterfinal action of the Credit Unions of R.I. Girls Basketball Championships at Rhode Island College.
During halftime of the R.I. Interscholastic League Division II Girls Basketball Championship on March 22 at the Ryan Center, the RIIL's Girls & Women In Sport Committee will honor La Salle girls soccer coach Lindsay Longval as the 2013 Alice A. Sullivan Female Coach of the Year, Classical runner Maddy Berkson as the 2013 Virginia L. "Gini" Duarte Athlete of the Year and Bay View Academy principal Colleen Gribbin as the recipient of the 2013 A. Lenore Cranston Award for Service.
The matchups for the quarterfinals of the R.I. Interscholastic League Credit Unions of R.I. Boys Basketball State Championships, Sunday at Brown's Pizzitola Center:
North Providence will attempt to defend two titles when it takes the mat for the R.I. interscholastic League Team Competition Cheerleading State Tournament, Saturday at the Providence Career & Technical Academy. The Cougars not only won the Medium Schools Division Championship last spring, they were also crowned as the overall state champs with a score of 194.8.
WARWICK —They both put in a full night's work. In fact, Central needed some extra time, but the Knights and North Kingstown earned the same prize Thursday night — a berth in the quarterfinal round.
PROVIDENCE — The reigning Division I champion and the defending state champ emerged victorious from round-of-16 action at the R.I. Interscholastic League's Credit Unions state open boys basketball tournament...
Powered by a 20 points from Keon Wilson, La Salle overcame a sluggish start and defeated Middletown, 75-50, in round-of-16 action in the Credit Unions of R.I. Boys Basketball State Championships, Thursday at R.I. College.
Led by a game-high 24 points from Alex Francis and another 19 from Matt Scott, 13th-seeded Mt. Hope upset No. 4 seed West Warwick with a 74-62 come-from-behind win in the opening round of the Credit Unions of R.I. Boys' Basketball State Championships, Wednesday at CCRI.
WARWICK — "Sometimes you've got to win ugly." That's what Bishop Hendricken boys basketball coach Jamal Gomes planned to tell his team when he met them in the locker room after Wednesday night's contest."Especially...
PROVIDENCE — Coventry started its offense rolling early and Barrington put-on a clamp-down defensive performance as the Oakers and Eagles advanced to the quarterfinal round of the R.I. Interscholastic...
Led by a combined 17 points from Justin Mazzulla and Matthew Duffie, Hendricken overcame an off shooting night and avoided being upset by 12th-seeded East Greenwich, posting a 39-35 victory over the Avengers in the opening round of the Credit Unions of R.I. Boys' Basketball State Championships, Wednesday at CCRI.
Athletes from R.I. high schools entered to compete at the New Balance National Indoor Track & Field Championships, to be held Friday through Sunday at the Armory Track in New York City:
Sisters Allie and Caitie Shea, both sophomores on the Saint Michael's College women's ice hockey team, were among 12 players from their team named to the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) East All-Academic team. The Smithfield residents and former Mount St. Charles standouts qualified by holding a minimum 3.0 cumulative grade-point average and by completing at least one academic year at their institution.
EAST GREENWICH – Teenage basketball impresario Derek Malloy is putting his hoop connections to good use this weekend.
The Providence Journal GameTime live chat returns this week with coverage from the boys basketball state championship Round of 16 on Wednesday and Thursday.
Since 1981, Mount St. Charles and Hendricken have met in the state hockey title series 18 times. That's more than any two schools, in any sport, have met in head-to-head competition for a state championship in the past half century.
PROVIDENCE — The journey may not be complete, but the La Salle boys basketball team reached a special destination Sunday."This is what we set out to accomplish, but we're not finished," La Salle coach...
PROVIDENCE — The Juanita Sanchez boys basketball team won a title and sent a message Sunday afternoon at Providence College's Alumni Hall.
PROVIDENCE — The idea was to maybe surprise someone toward the end of the season.Instead the North Providence High boys basketball team surprised the entire state.The fifth-seeded Cougars, a team that...
La Salle topped North Kingstown, 62-53, in the Division I boys basketball state championship game on Sunday to claim the state title.
PROVIDENCE — He was 9 years old when he started wrestling and he didn't think he had much of a career in the sport, but Christian LaBrie listened to his father when he was told to stick with it. Father...
He arguably is the best basketball player in the Interscholastic League, an All-Stater last year, even though he might be only 5-foot-10 on a good day.
Warwick Co-op's Kelsey Holmes scored the second-period goal that allowed the Titans to pull even with La Salle in Game 2 of the R.I. Interscholastic League Girls Hockey State Championship, Friday at Brown's Meehan Auditorium. The wrong player was credited with the unassisted tally in a story that appeared in Saturday's Sports Section.
PROVIDENCE — They made history with their first semifinal win. They made history with their first title appearance. And on Friday night, the members of the Warwick Co-op girls hockey team gained one more...
WARWICK — Top-seeded La Salle pulled away early while second-seeded North Kingstown needed a couple of free throws with 10 seconds to play to settle the issue, but the Rams and Skippers both reached the...
PROVIDENCE — Keep your heads up. Don't be overconfident. Seal it tonight and seal it quickly.Those were senior co-captain Sophie Faxon's words of advice to her fellow teammates on the Barrington/Mt. Hope/Portsmouth...
Receiving goals from sophomore Madison Balutowski and junior Abby Ellis and an MVP performance in net by freshman Gabriella Dicomitis, Warwick Co-op completed a sweep of La Salle, edging the two-time defending champs, 2-1, in the State Championship finals of the R.I. Interscholastic League Girls Hockey State Championships, Friday at Brown's Meehan Auditorium.
Led by two goals apiece from Kelly Kraunelis and Julia Harrigan, Barrington/Mt. Hope/Portsmouth blanked Narragansett/North Kingstown/South Kingstown, 5-0, clinching the Division II title of the R.I. Interscholastic League Girls Hockey Championships, Friday night at Brown's Meehan Auditorium.
Watching the Vanderbilt University baseball team compete against the likes of LSU and Florida on ESPN from time to time, Gian Martellini would say to himself, "I'd love to play at a school like that."
Bishop Hendricken catcher Gian Martellini has given a verbal commitment to Vanderbilt.
PROVIDENCE — Given all of the success that her players have already enjoyed during their high school hockey careers, coach Deneen Stebenne admits she went into this season asking herself, "Do they have...


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Judges can usually keep it together even when the lawyers deserve a paddlin' for their disrespectful behavior. And I cannot imagine how a judge summons the depth of patience required to deal with a pro se litigant without constantly losing their composure. While lawyers may privately think of judges as arrogant and imperious from time to time, when you really look at the job, judges spend most of their time holding their tongues.
Which is why a uncontrolled outburst from a federal judge is such a rare treat.
Now you may think, "This is probably a minor rebuke blown out of proportion." To that I quote David Frank, the managing editor of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly: "I have heard judges raise their voice. I've heard judges get tense. I have never heard something as loud as that."
I guess this was less of a benchslap and more of a benchpunch….
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Reading campaign boosting older students' exam results (From The Oxford Times)
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Reading campaign boosting older students' exam results
7:00am Thursday 12th December 2013 in News By Sophie Scott, Education Reporter, also covering East Oxford and Cowley. Call me on (01865) 425437
A READING campaign for young pupils has had a knock-on effect on exam results for older primary school students, headteachers said yesterday.
The Oxford Mail-backed campaign, which was set up last year, aims to improve literacy levels among Key Stage 1 students.
But revised figures have revealed that 78 per cent of pupils are achieving the benchmark of reaching at least level four in reading, writing and maths.
And headteachers and an education official say the reading campaign has helped older pupils – even though it was not aimed directly at them.
Smaller schools led the way in getting top results, with village schools in Little Milton, Combe, Clanfield and Longworth just some of the schools achieving a 100 per cent rate of children getting level four and above.
Jon Gray, headteacher at Cutteslowe Primary School where 62 per cent of students made the benchmark, said: "We have still got work to do around writing but we are doing very well in reading.
"We are seeing already that through the reading campaign writing is improving and, as we know, reading follows writing. We are finding reading results across the whole school go up."
The primary is involved in the reading campaign, which sees seven-year-olds work with books in small groups alongside a trained teaching assistant. They also read one-to-one with volunteers.
Teachers said yesterday that the campaign is having a broader impact on the culture of schools.
Windmill Primary headteacher Lynn Knapp – whose school is also involved in the campaign – believes it will take a few more years for the benefit of the reading campaign to be fully realised.
The school had 72 per cent of its year six students achieve level four and above.
She said: "We had a drop in writing, but we felt progress was really good.
"The reading campaign is aimed at year two but I think the impact it has had on reading throughout the school has really shown.
"Vocabulary is improving. But it will be in the coming years that the success of the reading campaign is really shown, as those children in the lower years make their way up the school."
In Oxfordshire, 78 per cent of pupils are achieving the benchmark of reaching at least level four in reading, writing and maths – three per cent higher than the national average.
And the county has improved on last year, where 77 per cent of year six pupils were reaching the Government benchmark.
These revised county figures are one per cent higher than earlier believed.
Melinda Tilley, cabinet member for education at Oxfordshire County Council, said: "I really do think this is a result of the reading campaign. Although it wasn't Key Stage 2 – it was Key Stage 1 – I think it has had a knock-on effect.
"It's given schools a culture of reading and I am sure that has helped. I hope that it continues to help."
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Savannah Arts Academy
Savannah, GA 31405
About This School
Magnet schools are public schools that offer a specialized curriculum or educational philosophy, often with a specific focus or theme. Magnet schools promote student diversity because they are open to students outside the normal school district boundaries and often attract high caliber students through competitive programs. See Savannah Arts Academy's test results to learn more about school performance.
In 2011, Savannah Arts Academy had 14 students for every full-time equivalent teacher. The Georgia average is 15 students per full-time equivalent teacher.
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Hi Maria - My conclusions from this year's encounters with Vika are as follows.
(1) With your "normal style" - trying to get the initiative at any rate - there is currently little chance to beat Vika. Usually, there is enough pressure in Vika's shots to make you hectic and ensure that 70% of your "shots" result in immediate errors.
(2) In my view your best chance to beat Vika (and Serena as well) is to beat them by your superior physical constitution (assuming you still have such at your disposal). In other words: If Vika or Serena dominates for "one and a half sets", it's fine if it took them two hours to get there and made them work physically and mentally hard. I am 100% sure that at this point Vika's, but also Serena's, play will deteriorate and if yours only slightly improved, the win in 3 set could be yours. Think e.g. about the Wimbledon final this year when you won your first game at 1:3 in the second set aganst Serena. In the following game, you had 3 opportunities to break Serena but did not make any of them. That could have been the turning point ...
Following this logic, all exchanges in the first set and beyond should be kept as long as possible. You can do this - meaning a defensive, sometimes "Kerber-like" play without any unenforced errors - because it has been your successful tactics versus Li Na, who you are constantly beating since playing "safe" and let her make the errors. Of course, Vika is a different caliber than Li Na. But you may want to watch two Azarenka matches of last week in Linz, where Julia Goerges came back from 0:5 0:40 to 4:5 30:30 in the second set, and also Martic's second set against Vika rather should have been 4:4 instead of 2:6.
I have to be more precise. What I mean by playing defensive and safe is the rallies. In Beijing, Vika won 90% of those. If you were able to reduce this only to 70% (thus win 30% thereof), it may be enough to make the difference in the score. It typically comes to a rally, (a) when you serve and Vika returns very well or (b) when Vika serves very well so that you must be happy to have returned at all. Your tactics in all other situations seem to be clear:
Return as aggressively as possible. Your reading of her serve usually greatly improves in the course of the match. This will define your number of your breaks. At 15:40 or so, it may, however, sometimes be advisable to return conservatively and make her play a rally. The surprise factor and your quick legs may bring you the break!
When you serve and the return is harmless, you have to make absolutely sure that your next shot brings you the initiative, but not necessarily the point yet! Minimize the risk of these second shots (not closely to the lines but intelligently placed!). As long as you keep the initiative, the exchange can be going on an on. Let her run and make her deliberately tired in such situations!
When serve and she returns very well, try to come into some form of defensive rally, don't give her the point by an overagressive second shot error.
A general observation of your recent encounters with Vika was that even though the scores were in clear favor of Vika, you often had points in nearly every game to win it but never got it. Stay cool in these situations. There is no way for a guaranteed point for you, thus make a clear plan for that point and execute it. But try to avoid double-faulting at that stage, either play the relatively safest second serve possible, or play a kind of 70/80% "safe" first serve. In this respect, in Beijing your double-fault at 3:5 40:40 in the first set was a pity, given that you came from being down 1:5.
I must admit I was really annoyed about the last point of said first set in Beijing. It was what I am calling "an execution point" - there is no excuse to miss said ball at the edge of the net. The set would have been longer, Vika would have begun earlier to get tired etc. I want to repeat my advice given before: Even if such short execution ball goes to your backhand side, often there is more than enough time to run around it, change grip and execute it with your forehand! Your backhand shots are too predictable regards where they will be going (sharply cross court). Such point can make the difference!
Vika is in general difficult, as there is no obvious place where to aim your shots at. The worst is to play a harmless ball to her forehand. In most cases, she plays longline to your backhand, not a winner but very safe and rather nasty. Your usual emergency shot is to also play longline (flat if possible but with a high error rate) but then Vika's next forehand will come ... So if possible try to play cross-court, safe, soft and long (Julia had some success doing so). Last time in Beijing you tried to play a lot into the middle. Not a bad plan in general but (a) Vika showed that she nevertheless can play a lot of said balls hard to your backhand and (b) it is a very difficult shot for you (resulting in many errors of length). Vika also has a good backhand, meaning that longer cross-court battles with her tend to be in her favor. So it may be a good idea to play a backhand longline early on (before being in the defensive), not a winner but making her run to the other side.
I think it is a rather simple plan to make the girl on the other side tired. Think of your match against Vika in Rome 2011. Although she won the first set 6:4, it was clear that she was totally exhausted and consequently gave up at 2:0 in your favor early in the second set. That was no injury, that was exhaustion!
All the best and no fears of Samantha who only can beat you when you are in very bad shape.
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However, several county employees face salary cuts this fiscal year, and the 51 eliminated positions put public safety at risk, according to some county employee groups.
"The county's budget as-is will continue the devastation to law enforcement and other public safety programs of recent years. In the (Washoe County) Sheriff's Office), 28 vacant positions will be lost, and casting the elimination of vacant positions as a net-zero loss of law enforcement personnel is misleading to the public," said Tim Ross, president of Washoe County Sheriff's Deputy Association (WCSDA).
"The real result will be fewer officers on the streets and less-safe communities. Moreover, the $2.4 million in cuts (in addition to the $21 million in cuts over the last three years) to the sheriff's office budget ensures a further reduction in public safety services for Washoe County residents," Ross said in a statement. "The county's own survey shows Washoe residents are increasingly concerned about cuts to public safety. A majority of respondents think public safety should be more adequately funded."
Ross said the office is at minimum staffing most of the time as it is, and with the time it takes to hire a deputy and put them through the training process, the decision not to hire additional deputies puts the county's residents at risk. Sheriff's associations are being asked to take additional 2.4 percent salary cuts in the coming fiscal year. The negotiations have not been finalized.
Washoe County Manager Katy Simon said the county appreciates and respects the concerns of all departments, including those of Washoe County deputies and other employees who have "given so much during this long economic downturn when we've had to budget with $155-plus million less in revenues."
"The reality is that the sheriff's office budget grew from 30 percent of the general fund budget to 38 percent of the general fund budget, while other services have declined in proportion," Simon said in a statement.
The sheriff's office operates with some 35 vacant positions at any given time throughout the year, and Sheriff Mike Haley reached an agreement with the county to keep some 28 positions open in a vacancy pool so people can be hired where there are critical needs, Simon said.
"There are no easy or welcome solutions with the kind of cuts that local governments in Nevada have faced. The Board of County Commissioners has placed the highest priority on public safety in every year of this Great Recession, and will continue to do so," Simon said.
According to Simon, there was no way to confirm the statement that the sheriff's office had been cut by $21 million. The sheriff's office budget grew, according to Simon, by $13.5 million from 2005 to 2012, and with a budget of $83 million in fiscal year 2012 was only $7.7 million less than it was at its peak of spending in 2009. In contrast, Public Works lost $13.8 million from 2005 to 2012, and lost 49 percent from its peak year, she said.
The county's two major sources of general fund revenue — property tax and consolidated taxes — have declined by 15 percent since the fiscal year of 2007-08, which has contributed significantly to the decline in revenue used to provide services, according to spokeswoman Nancy Leuenhagen. This will further impact the number of positions that the county has to serve its citizens as the ratio of Washoe County staff to population has decreased by 27 percent since 2005. While the Consumer Price Index has increased by 12 percent since 2007, the general fund expenditures have decreased by 9 percent, creating significant pressures on service provisions.
Simon said while the impact of the cuts will be difficult, it's important to point out that no reserve funds were used.
"We reduced our target ending fund balance to help close the shortfall this year," Simon said. "We budgeted 8 percent of the unassigned net resources to be available at year-end to tide us over into the next year, compared to the 8.3 percent we had proposed to set aside back in February. We do not require the use of reserves to balance this budget."
Due to the fact that labor agreements are not concluded with all of the county labor associations, departments had to plan for the worst case scenario. The adopted budget that was proposed is balanced without association wage concessions, which was made possible by eliminating vacant positions.
"Washoe County has reduced our staffing from 8.1 employees per thousand population in 2006, to only 5.8 employees today in response to the dramatic reduction in revenues. We do understand that being unable to fill vacancies is very hard on employees who have to take up the slack when those positions aren't filled, and very hard on the public which must endure ongoing service impacts. We remain hopeful that we can reach conclusions on labor agreements that can free up some, if not all, of those positions to be filled so that employees have more help." Simon said. "Wage concessions for management, commissioners and Juvenile Services employees consistent with what has been asked of other employees are budgeted in this budget and will continue through 2012-13. In addition, the courts have also agreed to look at wage concessions once the county's labor agreements are concluded."
Unlike many local governments in Nevada, the county will also be transferring almost $19 million into the trust that has been established for the long-term liability for retiree health benefits. The county negotiated with its employees to end that retiree health insurance benefit for employees hired after July 1, 2010. Other aspects of the budget are:
• Washoe County hopes to receive a settlement from the state for a portion of the property taxes that were diverted from county resources; $6 million over two years will go directly into funding state-authorized infrastructure projects that will also create local jobs, and $1.25 million is proposed to go toward entirely eliminating a health insurance premium increase for employees and retirees next year. Commissioners also gave direction that, if and when that settlement is received, they would like to consider allocating a portion of it towards hiring additional deputies.
• Washoe County has fully funded the Incline Village tax refunds and still maintains millions of dollars in assigned reserves for risk management, equipment replacement, health benefits and other designated purposes.
• Washoe County will be appropriately increasing the investment in employee development and training, and will be inviting employees and private sector representatives to help identify the highest priorities.
• Washoe County will be supporting a "Buy Local/Think Local" initiative to help grow the local economy, which helps government grow new tax revenues in the region to fund all operations.
• Washoe County is forming an Economic Development Team internally to assist new and expanding businesses in navigating through the planning and permitting processes, and is increasing support to the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada by $10,000.
• The county's largest fund, the general fund, was approved for $301.2 million in expenditures and other uses for the next fiscal year, which begins July 1. This represents a decrease in revenue from all sources of 8 percent, some of which is an expected decrease in property tax of $2.5 million.


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For this fifth in the Endurance series, I post this out to the enthusiasts in hopes of swaying those who are resistant and also in hopes of extending the conversation beyond this blog point and on into the halls, changing rooms and cycling studios of your gym. The thing is, my feeling is there may be an imbalance in the very delicate equilibrium of the coach and the coached relationship, so if we can maybe set a few things straight, EEZ may get to stand up and be counted among the best classes ever, rather than the spot light always going to IEZ and SEZ. Here is how I see it. When you go to a class, you do so for several reasons. Rather than doing it yourself on the cardio floor or outside, you choose to go into a studio. It might be because you can?t motivate yourself to stick to it for 40 to 60 minutes, the cardio machines might not be available at the hours you can get to the gym, the weather where you live may deter you from being outside or you may like the group camaraderie and being told what to do. All of those are very solid reasons to get to a group class. In doing so, however, you defer decision making to the instructor and the gym (regarding class start and finish time, policies for taking care of the equipment, and coaching and cueing for technique and motivation.) Once you defer decision making to the instructor, the balance shifts a little in the partnership. The instructor takes on a little more power and you forfeit some. But through the years, the balancing act is countered by some strong external forces and the strength of the group has skewed the partnership more. As a group, and among individuals, there is a perception that an instructor needs to be a drill sergeant and grind the participants into the ground. Blame Hollywood. Blame that ?no pain, no gain? attitude prevalent in the fitness industry. Blame your father, I don?t care, but some how the original quest of Johnny G (a man I do not know, by the way, so I am okay in being corrected on this next statement) of offering cardio training (a training program) got lost because of a group held mentality that harsh is better than smooth, pain and discomfort are a more efficient avenue toward fitness and that one killer hard core workout a week is better than several endurance zone classes per week. And as this perception began to cement ? just think how boring all the military-esque movies would be if they involved moderate energy, rather than boot camp screaming and scrambling. (Go ahead and bring up Forest Gump and his run across the US and back several times?that was an impressive scene that supports EEZ . . . but they are few and far between). Instructors and management folded to this notion. ?If we want soft, we?ll take pilates and yoga; if we want brutal, we?ll go for indoor cycling and kickboxing.? Instructors who love the hard-core classes were an easy sell to the demand for hard-core classes. You, the participants, flocked to the meanest instructors, with a breathless thumbs up. Management watched carefully and filled the time slots with the popular instructors and thus the imbalance made a hefty lurch to the side of ?workout? vs. ?TRAINING? as was originally conceived by SpinningShare


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The healing power of laughter was not taken seriously by a scientific world until the late Norman Cousins, former editor of Saturday Review and subsequently professor at UCLA's School of Medicine, wrote about his life-changing experience with humor. As he reported in his book Anatomy of an Illness, laughter helped turn the tide of a serious collagen disease.
"I made the joyous discovery," Cousins reported, "that ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep."
He surrounded himself with Marx Brothers films and Candid Camera videos. He also checked out of the hospital and moved into a hotel where, as he says, he could "laugh twice as hard at half the price."
Cousins called laughter "inner jogging" because every system in our body gets a workout when we have a hearty laugh. Laboratory studies support Cousins' hunches. Our cardiovascular and respiratory systems, for example, benefit more from twenty seconds of robust laughter than from three minutes of exercise on a rowing machine. Through laughter, muscles release tension and neurochemicals are released into the bloodstream, creating the same feelings the long-distance joggers experience as "runner's high."
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